WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:02.000 You 00:30.000 --> 00:32.000 You 01:00.000 --> 01:02.000 You 01:30.000 --> 01:33.000 You 02:00.000 --> 02:02.000 You 02:30.000 --> 02:33.000 You 03:00.000 --> 03:02.000 You 03:30.000 --> 03:32.000 You 04:00.000 --> 04:02.000 You 04:30.000 --> 04:32.000 You 04:51.000 --> 04:55.240 A century or two ago we built our church and mark the common out 04:55.240 --> 05:02.380 We raised the town hall next so we could have our say about the taxes or whether we need another teacher for the school 05:03.300 --> 05:10.940 When town meeting comes around we know our rights and duties and no harm if we disagree in all that matters we neighbors hold together 05:13.900 --> 05:20.100 We work from Sun to dark if you can call just work a job that helps make a body feel at peace while doing it 05:20.100 --> 05:22.140 Or hum a bit with pleasure when it's done 05:22.140 --> 05:28.340 Art isn't something foreign we look at in a showcase. It's in the blankets that we've spun and woven right at home 05:28.860 --> 05:33.420 It's in the patchwork quilt sewn by our daughters at a quilting bee for someone's bridal chest 05:33.420 --> 05:36.140 It's in the locks and hinges that the blacksmith shapes 05:37.100 --> 05:42.300 It's in the baskets that are woven in the neighborhood to fit our household needs from marketing to mending 05:44.940 --> 05:47.900 When water wheels are better fitted to do the work than human hands 05:47.900 --> 05:52.460 We rig up the machines to saw the wood or grind the corn for harmony grits and Johnny cake 05:54.620 --> 05:59.180 A while ago that corn was on the stock above the pumpkins ripe and yellow 06:00.860 --> 06:03.180 One night the neighbors met to shell the ears together 06:03.180 --> 06:09.180 They did the job in no time so they could clear the old barn floor and choose their favorite partners for the dances 06:11.900 --> 06:15.900 There was lasting harmony between the soil and what we built or planted there 06:15.900 --> 06:18.940 We used our hands and mastered what we laid our hands on 06:19.580 --> 06:24.540 Working and living we found a balance the town was us and we were part of it 06:25.500 --> 06:28.540 We never let our cities grow too big for us to manage 06:29.500 --> 06:31.820 We never pushed the open land too far away 06:32.700 --> 06:37.820 We youngsters took it in the haying field the mill the daily chores were teachers 06:40.300 --> 06:43.820 We old ones had good years of family life our own 06:43.820 --> 06:47.980 Our children's mellow years before the ripe fruit fell 06:48.540 --> 06:51.340 As fruit will drop on windless autumn days 06:52.140 --> 06:53.660 And that was peace 06:53.660 --> 06:57.420 The seed was ready for the earth again ready to die 06:57.420 --> 07:13.420 Ready once more to grow 07:27.420 --> 07:29.420 So 07:43.420 --> 07:50.060 Chains inventions power black out the past forget the quiet cities bring in the steam and steel the iron men the giants 07:50.540 --> 07:52.700 Open the throttle all aboard the promised land 07:53.260 --> 07:56.540 Pillars of smoke by day pillars of fire by night pillars of progress 07:56.540 --> 08:02.300 Machines to make machines production to expand production. There's wood and wheat and kitchen sinks and calico 08:02.300 --> 08:26.780 Already made in tons and carload lots enough for tens thousands millions millions faster and faster better and better 08:32.940 --> 08:34.940 You 08:39.580 --> 08:44.300 It don't make us any happier to know there's millions like us living here on top of it 08:45.980 --> 08:50.860 There's prisons where a guy sent up for crime can get a better place to live in than we can give our children 08:54.140 --> 08:56.540 Smoke makes prosperity they tell you here 08:56.540 --> 09:01.260 Smoke makes prosperity no matter if you choke on it 09:05.100 --> 09:11.180 We got to face life in these shacks and alleys we got to let our children take their chances here with rickets typhoid 09:11.820 --> 09:13.820 tb or worse 09:14.060 --> 09:16.060 They draw a blank the kids 09:17.180 --> 09:21.340 They have no business here. This no man's land this flag heap wasn't meant for them 09:21.340 --> 09:27.740 There's poison in the air. We breathe there's poison in the river the fog and smoke blow right up and choke us 09:27.740 --> 09:29.740 Chokas 09:50.220 --> 09:53.500 Don't tell us that this is the best that you can do in building cities 09:53.500 --> 09:55.500 We built this place 09:56.700 --> 09:58.700 What put us here 09:58.700 --> 10:01.500 And how do we get out again? We're asking 10:02.140 --> 10:03.660 Just asking 10:03.660 --> 10:08.220 We might as well stay in the mills and call that home. It just as fit to live in 10:09.820 --> 10:16.140 We mine the coal load the furnace roll the steel drive the rivets we lock the bolt on the assembly line 10:16.140 --> 10:23.680 We lock the bolt on the assembly line lucky if we have the chance to keep the job from day to day from month to month 10:46.140 --> 10:48.140 The 11:04.300 --> 11:06.300 Dirty work alone don't get us down 11:07.260 --> 11:11.760 We're not ashamed to handle coal and iron all the way from mine shafts to skyscrapers 11:11.760 --> 11:17.760 We turn out cars attractors. We're mighty proud of same as you, but how does that make sense with this? 11:34.320 --> 11:38.640 We never get the gritty feel out of our nose our eyes our lungs our guts 11:38.640 --> 11:43.920 We never get a chance to see how blue the sky can be unless the mills are all shut down 11:45.600 --> 11:51.200 Smoke makes prosperity. They say does this mean that there's no way out for us. There must be something better 11:51.200 --> 12:08.800 Why can't we have it a decent home? 12:08.800 --> 12:10.800 So 12:19.600 --> 12:23.600 Follow the crowd get the big money you make a pile and raise a pile that makes another pile for you 12:23.840 --> 12:29.600 Follow the crowd. We've reached a million two million five million. Watch us grow going up. It's new. It's automatic 12:29.600 --> 12:35.200 It dictates records seals sterilizers stamps and delivers in one operation without human hand. What am I bid? 12:35.200 --> 12:42.400 What am I offered sold? Who's next the people? Yes follow the crowd to the empire city the wonder city the windy city the fashion city 12:42.640 --> 12:44.160 The people yes 12:44.160 --> 12:45.280 the people 12:45.280 --> 12:47.280 perhaps 12:47.280 --> 12:51.280 So 12:51.280 --> 13:07.920 So very truly yours most sincerely we beg to remain yours most respectful dear sir 13:21.280 --> 13:23.280 Thank you 13:51.280 --> 13:53.280 So 13:56.480 --> 14:01.920 This myth who's on call dr. Nicol is on call dr. Nicol dr. Nicol 14:04.080 --> 14:08.420 Get dr. Lee, but not another street case compound factor of the tibia 14:08.420 --> 14:20.180 Can't locate dr. Lee from 38th floor compound back to the tibia 14:38.420 --> 14:40.660 So 15:08.420 --> 15:10.420 So 15:10.420 --> 15:38.180 So 15:40.420 --> 15:42.660 So 16:10.500 --> 16:12.500 So 16:12.500 --> 16:28.500 So